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The Platformisation of Cultural Production : The Example of Amazon Publishing Ecosystem 

  

  1. (College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058

  • Received:2025-01-01 Revised:2025-08-17 Online:2025-12-04 Published:2025-12-05

Abstract: This paper takes Amazon’ s publishing ecosystem as the research object to explore its process of platform-based reorganization of cultural practices. The study focuses on four core dimensions : the reconfiguration of cultural practices, digital enclosures, platform surveillance and market capture. These processes profoundly exemplify the underlying logic of platform capitalism within the neoliberal framework—achieving comprehensive penetration of cultural values by capital through transforming cultural production and social interactions into quantifiable market transactions. This paper particularly emphasizes that books, as the primary vehicle of cultural symbols, have become dual objects of both capitalist operations and technological intervention during the process of platformization. 

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